m up,
for I love the bitter of the kernel.

_Judge._ Did you observe these plumstones, whether they were of a pale
or a red colour?

_Edward Harris._ I had put them into my pocket, and forgotten them; but,
on meeting with my disappointment in the tart, and finding there was so
much room to suspect that Henry Lenox was the culprit, I pulled out the
stones, and found by their colour they had been baked, for they were of
a deep red. We concluded likewise that they must that day have been
taken out of some tart, as they were still clammy.

_Judge._ Did you ask Henry Lenox how he came by those stones?

_Edward Harris._ I did not, for I well knew, if I had, he would not have
answered me.

_Judge._ Did you take any method to discover who was the person that
robbed Sammy Halifax?

_Edward Harris._ Yes; we agreed among ourselves, with our tutor's leave,
to stick up a paper in the school, offering one shilling reward to any
of the party who would turn evidence, and give information of the person
who committed the fact. As we had great reason to suppose several were
concerned in the eating of it, we were in hopes by this means to make a
discovery; but we were disappointed, for not any spoke a word about it,
and all in general pleaded ignorance.

_Secretary._ Hannah Careful, please give evidence.

_Judge._ Pray, what have you to say to this matter?

_Hannah Careful._ I am a half-boarder, and was ordered by my governess
to attend here, in order to prove that the tart I delivered to Sammy
Halifax was filled with plums, and not stones.

_Judge._ That is a material point; pray proceed.

_Hannah Careful._ My governess instructs me in the art of pastry and
confectionery; I that day made all the tarts myself, and was ordered to
give Sammy Halifax one of the best. Before I gave it him, I raised one
side of the crust, to see if the syrup might not have boiled out, when I
found it had not; and I am certain it was filled with plums when I
delivered it to Sammy Halifax.

_Secretary._ Sally Delia, please to give evidence.

_Judge._ What do you know of this affair?

_Sally Delia._ Your lordship cannot have yet forgotten that I was myself
so unfortunate as to fall under the censure of this court. I am sorry
for the crime which then brought me before you, but I shall ever
consider that day as the happiest period of my life--a day in which I
was convinced of my folly, obstinacy, and self-conceit; a day to which I
owe all the happi